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Article: It's all happening in Regent Street; COMMERCIAL PROPERTY.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 17, 2005
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Byline: DAVID SPITTLES
CROWN Estate's strategic redevelopment of Regent Street coincides sweetly with a new era in commercial leases and a West End office revival.
Regent Street as we know it today, not the Nash original, was built in the 1920s.
Long leases granted then are now falling in, and Crown Estate has seized the opportunity to take control of buildings and re-brand the thoroughfare - a [pounds sterling]500 million modernisationprogramme of new and refurbishedoffices, shops and public New buildings are going up behind the impressive listed facades, replacing boutique interiors and cellular offices with flexible floorplates, the largest ...